TY - BOOK AU - Spenser,Jay P. TI - The airplane: how ideas gave us wings SN - 9780061259197 AV - TL671.2 .S67 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - HarperCollins KW - Airplanes KW - Design and construction KW - History KW - Aeronautics KW - Research N1 - Smithsonian books; Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-317) and index; Conception: the thinker and the dreamer -- Birth: Wilbur, Orville, and the world -- Configuration: shapes and ideas -- Fuselage: of drums and dragonflies -- Wings, part I : from box kites to bridges -- Wings, part II : cloud-cutting cantilevers -- Empennage: whale flukes and arrow feathers -- Flight controls: the chariot's reins -- Flight deck: cockpits for aerial ships -- Aero propulsion: Prometheus is pushing -- Landing gear: shoes, canoes, and carriage wheels -- Passenger cabin: voyaging aloft -- Systems integration: making flying safer -- Today's state of the art: the Boeing 787 Dreamliner -- Postscript: tomorrow's wings: future air travel technologies N2 - The inside story of how people invented and refined the airplane UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0819/2008023423.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0915/2008023423-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0915/2008023423-d.html ER -